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RARE conjoined twins have been separated at a world-leading hospital in London, surgeons have announced.

Paediatric neurosurgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani was involved in separating two-year-old craniopagus sisters Safa and Marwa Ullah from Pakistan.

Twin girls who were born joined at the head are preparing to return home to Pakistan following a successful operation at a London hospital last year.

In an incredibly rare surgery that involved an equally rare congenital abnormality, two-year-old twin girls, Ervina and Prefina Bangalo, from Mbaiki, Central African Republic, had their skulls separated by doctors and nurses from the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Italy, CNN reported this month.

Rare conjoined twins have been separated at a world-leading hospital in London, surgeons have announced.

Twin girls who were born joined at the head, and separated last year by a team at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, have returned home to Pakistan.

 High-tech science helped doctors in England successfully separate conjoined twins. Surgery to separate conjoined twins is complicated and dangerous but the team in England used cutting-edge virtual reality and 3D printing to plan the separation.

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